Astro Farm


Astro Farm is a British children's television series animated in stop motion. It featured the adventures of the Foxwoods, a small family who work on an asteroid, which is covered in farmland. Astro Farm was produced by FilmFair for Central Independent Television, and was first broadcast on CITV in 1992, The Children's Channel from 1995; Nick Jr. later repeated it from 2000.

Synopsis

The main action takes place on an asteroid dedicated to farming. The Foxwoods live in a small cottage with a barn nearby. Daisy, the cow lives in a separate farm. The atmosphere is artificial and is controlled by the weather machine in the cottage. The Gorps live on a nearby asteroid known as 'Gorpdale' which is dark and wet.
The principal characters are Lizzie; Lizzie's husband Sam; their son, Tom; Dinko, a dog; Daisy, the cow and blue chickens called Clucks; featuring the Gorps, Splodger and Biff, two miscreants who steal food and cause trouble at the farm.

Episodes

Series 1 (1992)

  1. Wacky weather
  2. Flying Dinko
  3. The well
  4. Moo flu
  5. Astro dragon
  6. Butterfly
  7. Disappearing bubbles
  8. The big sneeze
  9. The tomato competition
  10. Barn dance
  11. The black hole mole
  12. Training Dinko
  13. The surprise

    Series 2 (1993)

  14. Biff builds a rocket!
  15. Cluck soup
  16. Holiday
  17. King Splodger
  18. Lizzie's quiet day
  19. Pumpkin
  20. Seeing double
  21. Shrinking machine
  22. Solar wind
  23. Wild martian tiger
  24. Wishing well

    Series 3 (1994)

  25. All aboard!
  26. Astrodale Farm
  27. Bathtime
  28. Biff's baby
  29. Crow twins
  30. Dial G for Gorpdale
  31. Magic onions
  32. Spooked!
  33. Super Tom

    Series 4 (1995)

  34. 1, 2, 3, pull!
  35. A mole in one
  36. Biff, do your best!
  37. Cowboy Tom
  38. Dragon moon
  39. Futile attraction
  40. Pied Piper of Gorpdale
  41. Slimcurd, Slimcurd, everywhere!
  42. Splodger, the spider
  43. That takes the biscuit!

    Series 5 (1996)

  44. Lucky dip
  45. Mousequake
  46. Pigs might fly
  47. Poultry in motion
  48. Spaced out Splodger
  49. Sparks fly!
  50. Splodger's about!
  51. Surprise!, surprise!
  52. To catch a thief
  53. Tom and the beanstalk

    Credits

In the United Kingdom, the entire TV series was first published on VHS tapes on 1992, released by Pickwick and distributed by Carlton Home Entertainment in 1995.